Scranton Fire Department

⚠️📱Scranton Enhances Public Notification Abilities 📱⚠️

The Scranton Fire Department's Emergency Management Team visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) Technical Support Services Facility (TSSF) to hone in on their skills for mass notifications to ensure that City residents and visitors can get emergency information when they need it to stay safe.

The Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS) is the Federal Governments national system for local alerting that provides authenticated emergency and life-saving information to the public through mobile phones using Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), to radio and television via the Emergency Alert System (EAS), and on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Weather Radio.